{UAH} *Extract from the Dictators Handbook*
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12 APRIL 1980- LIBERIA*
Liberia's Sergeant Samuel Doe was just no body until April 12, 1980.
Born in a remote part of Liberia's interior and virtually illiterate, moved to the Capital Monrovia where he joined the army which gave opportunities to men without skills. One of such opportunities presented itself when Doe found himself in President William Tolbert's bedroom on April 12. As the president slept, Doe seized the day, bayoneted the president, threw his intestines to the dogs, and declared himself Liberia's new president.
He rounded up 13 cabinet ministers, who were publicly executed.
Formed the Peoples Redemption Council that suspended the constitution and banned all political activity.
Doe had no idea what a President was supposed to do and even less idea of how to govern a country. What he did know was how to seize power and keep it: remove the previous ruler; find the money; form a small coalition; and pay them just enough to keep them loyal.
As of Doe's policies, they couldn't be called successful. Indeed he produced virtually no policies at all.
He was lazy, and spent his days hanging out with wives of his presidential guards.
The economy collapsed, foreign debts soared, and criminal enterprises became the virtually the only successful businesses in Liberia. Monrovia Banks became money laundering operations.
*Extract from the Dictators Handbook*
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-- Liberia's Sergeant Samuel Doe was just no body until April 12, 1980.
Born in a remote part of Liberia's interior and virtually illiterate, moved to the Capital Monrovia where he joined the army which gave opportunities to men without skills. One of such opportunities presented itself when Doe found himself in President William Tolbert's bedroom on April 12. As the president slept, Doe seized the day, bayoneted the president, threw his intestines to the dogs, and declared himself Liberia's new president.
He rounded up 13 cabinet ministers, who were publicly executed.
Formed the Peoples Redemption Council that suspended the constitution and banned all political activity.
Doe had no idea what a President was supposed to do and even less idea of how to govern a country. What he did know was how to seize power and keep it: remove the previous ruler; find the money; form a small coalition; and pay them just enough to keep them loyal.
As of Doe's policies, they couldn't be called successful. Indeed he produced virtually no policies at all.
He was lazy, and spent his days hanging out with wives of his presidential guards.
The economy collapsed, foreign debts soared, and criminal enterprises became the virtually the only successful businesses in Liberia. Monrovia Banks became money laundering operations.
*Extract from the Dictators Handbook*
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"When a man is stung by a bee, he doesn't set off to destroy all beehives"
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